might soundd a bit silly but iv got into the addiction of playing with my lego and making trains and cars? Please say theres no strangeness about this?
Thing is im not getting any fun out of this, but im playing with my lego more than LFS

I use it occasionally to prove a mechanism actually works before I make it, although it's usually Technik lego. Lately it's been replaced with Autodesk Inventor's Dynamic Studio thingy, which does the same but with a bit more science (Lego is reserved for when I'm really confused).

My train project

I worked on this for quite a while, countless hours. There is over 80 feet of track and a nice spiral. The train is now working well, that video is actually quite the stress test since the camera weighs a lot more than the train. The track didn't fall, train lost balance when I moved it. It will continue to grow over the years. But yea! Enjoy... Will eventually someday take NON-First Person video of the 50 second loop, but here is a teaser. It's all lego held up by string and popsickle stick braces

Enjoy.

well u get something out of it.. i just sit there making cars then driving them round like i used to do as a little kid..

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My train project

I worked on this for quite a while, countless hours. There is over 80 feet of track and a nice spiral. The train is now working well, that video is actually quite the stress test since the camera weighs a lot more than the train. The track didn't fall, train lost balance when I moved it. It will continue to grow over the years. But yea! Enjoy... Will eventually someday take NON-First Person video of the 50 second loop, but here is a teaser. It's all lego held up by string and popsickle stick braces

Enjoy.

Wallace and Grommit moment!

Wow, Blackbird, that's brilliant


I've got a fair bit of lego (the wife buys me some every christmas and birthday ) although nowhere near the amount I used to have as a kid - I had more lego than anyone I knew.

One of my latest projects was a clutch pedal for LFS to go with my DFP, using a playstation pad and some technic lego:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws8hYmtLTwM

nice one blackbird. nice barrol rolls.

Awesome Crashgate! I'd have never of thought. . . Now I wonder why I bought the G25 when I could have done it myself, lol!

Wow thats some clever engineering with lego, and i like your railway project blackbird, I wouldnt want to look down if i was a passenger though!

I used to make absolutely epic sized things from buildings to cars and planes from this massive bucket of lego I had, its in the loft somewhere now.

I still play in the sand with my Tonkas so there's no harm in playing with Legos...
















It's normal, is it??

I'm tempted from time to time to drag the huge box of Lego out from under my bed and just spend the day making stuff.....

Its Toooo God Dam Addictive !

STOP IT!!! You are making me want to go up in the loft and get my Scalextric out, build a track, then nick EmmyLou's Lego to make grandstands and pit-boxes and shops and stuff...or walls to crash my cars through....AGAIN! .



or a full scale model of Monaco.....hold on, now THATS an idea...

I have several huuuuuge buckets of LEGO left over from when I was a kid - haven't used it in ages, but I keep meaning to for things like (as Tristan said) planning projects, or other similar things.

It's simply brilliant stuff.

Lego indiana jones for playstation FTW

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Awesome Crashgate! I'd have never of thought. . . Now I wonder why I bought the G25 when I could have done it myself, lol!

Here's a challenge: Get two USB analogue pads and try to make a working wheel and pedal set using them and lego.

You'd have some nice mechanisms to work out, for example to run three pedals off the one pad, one pedal's movement would need to be turned through 90 degrees before it got to the pad's analogue stick. You'd also need some sort of mechanism that would allow one stick to accept both left-right and up-down movement without one affecting the other.

I don't think you'd be able to make an h-shifter without pulling the pad apart so you could move the buttons around, but a sequential one shouldn't be too hard.

i tried to create As1 with scaletrix , it ended up looking like a crappy version of castle combe